SDA Bocconi, a Nobel prize winner at the MBA

Michael Spence, Nobel laureate in economics, in the faculty of SDA Bocconi

The international faculty of SDA Bocconi school of management has been further enriched with the arrival of Michael Spence, Nobel prize winner for economics in 2001. For the coming years Spence will be protagonist in the classroom of the MBA full-time program. In the current edition Spence taught the course in ‘Growth in the emerging economies.’

Nobel prize winner for economics in 2001, together with George Akerlof e Joseph Stiglitz for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information, Spence is professor of economics at the New York University Stern School of Business and Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management at theGraduate School of Business of Stanford University. Spence is also President of the Commission on Growth and Development, an international policy group dedicated to promoting sustainable growth and poverty reduction in developing countries.

The presence of Spence further strengthens the international prestige of SDA’s MBA, which at the beginning of the year entered the European top ten in the Financial Times ranking. The MBA faculty is composed of more than one quarter international professors.